At last . . .
On a recent blow against a discriminatory practice.
FIRE to the rescue
Just what is a "dispositions exam"?
The New Criterion on art
On our special December art section.
Some family news
On some recent changes at The New Criterion.
“Art in crisis”
by Roger Kimball
Reflections on Sedlmayr's remarkable--and largely forgotten--work.
The fiasco at Ground Zero
by Michael J. Lewis
On the failure to memorialize the Twin Towers.
Criticism after art
by James Panero
On discussing art criticism at the Art Institute of Chicago and encountering the critic Dave Hickey.
Deaccession roulette
by Hilton Kramer
On an unfortunate art world practice.
The angelic friar
by Marco Grassi
Fra Angelico comes to the Met.
A fresh look at Van Gogh
by Karen Wilkin
On Vincent van Gogh's drawings at the Met.
The Schiele moment
by Mario Naves
On Egon Schiele at Neue Galerie.
Monet in Zola & Proust
by Jeffrey Meyers
How did Zola and Proust depict Monet?
A conversation on art
by David Yezzi
A conversation with Rackstraw Downes.
The real Rodin
by Eric Gibson
What makes a "real" Rodin?
“Eurylochus recalls the Sirens”
by Daniel Mark Epstein
A new poem.
Catering off-off-Broadway
by Mark Steyn
Mark Steyn on Jonathan Leaf's "The Caterers."
The many faces of Memling
by Daniel Kunitz
On Hans Memling's portraits at the Frick.
Landscape in Provence
by John Russell
On "Right under the Sun: Landscape in Provence, from Classicism to Modernism (1750-1920)," which opened at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts on September 22, 2005 and remains on view through January 8, 2006.
New York chronicle
by Jay Nordlinger
On the latest in the New York music scene.
In defense of cover-ups
by James Bowman
What's wrong with a little obfuscation?
Jumping the shark
by William Logan
William Logan on current poetry.
Living with liberalism
by Robert Kraynak
On Daniel Mahoney's Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity.
Mencken No. 3
by Terry Teachout
On Marion Elizabeth Rodger's "Mencken: The American Iconoclast."
The infamous philosophe
by Mark Molesky
On Roger Pearson's "Voltaire Almighty: A Life in Pursuit of Freedom."
Kathmandu-sur-Rhone
by Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple on the turmoil in France.